Morningside Heights and Manhattanville

Area: 110th St. on the south to 135th St. on the north; from Riverside Drive east
to Morningside Ave. and St. Nicholas Ave. (125th to 135th St.).

The neighborhood of Morningside Heights is distinguished by many
beautiful buildings devoted to learning or to religious worship. Columbia
University, with the affiliated Barnard College, is here; the Union Theo-
logical Seminary, the Jewish Theological Seminary, the Juilliard School of
Music, and several other noted institutions. To the west is the tower of the
Riverside Church, Riverside Drive and West 122d Street,
and the elevation on the southeast is crowned by the Cathedral of St.
John the Divine, Amsterdam Avenue and West 112th
Street.

North of the cathedral is the Church of Notre Dame de Lourdes,
Morningside Drive at 114th Street, where sermons are delivered in French.
Its services are attended regularly by language students from Columbia.
The church building, French Renaissance in style, was dedicated in 1915.
A striking feature of the interior is a beautifully lighted grotto, in the
apse, so constructed that the grotto appears to have been hollowed from
the rock of the Morningside cliff. Mrs. Geraldine Redmond, who donated
the property, had the grotto built as an expression of faith, after her son's
cure at the famous church in Lourdes, France.

Morningside Park, extending from Cathedral Parkway (110th Street)
to 123d Street, east of the cathedral, includes the narrow strip of ground
formed by the rocky cliff that falls sharply from Morningside Drive, the
eastern edge of the Heights proper, to Morningside Avenue, a block far-
ther east on the plain below. Some of the exposed rocks in the park date
from the pre-Cambrian period. Stone steps zigzag up the side of the rock
at 116th Street. At its top, within a semicircle of polished stone benches,
facing the Drive, is a bronze Statue of Carl Schurz , by
Karl Bitter, sculptor, and Henry Bacon, architect, erected in 1912. Con-
tinuing west, 116th Street passes through the campus of Columbia Uni-
versity, whose buildings occupy the area from 114th to
121st Street, from Broadway to Amsterdam Avenue. The buildings of
Barnard College for women, a part of Columbia University, are west of
Broadway from 116th Street north to 120th Street.

Directly north of Barnard College, the Union Theological Seminary
occupies the blocks running from 120th to 122d Street, and from Clare-
mont Avenue east to Broadway. The intimate grouping of the seminary